Mykhailo Strelbytskyi, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, worked at the Department of Cultural Studies at VNTU since 1991. He didn’t limit himself only to lectures and seminars. For many years he directed the student literary association “Student Muse” and the column under the same in the university magazine “Impulse”. With his blessing, two collections of studio students' works, a collection of their poetry and criticism, and own books of poems by Oksana Barbak, Dmytro Shtofel, and Serhii Bilokhatniuk were published.